Our Mission....
      To impact the lives of citizens in our service area by helping create new and
      broader economic development opportunities and an improved quality of life.
      To encourage stability and sustained, diversified economic development and 
      growth.

What we are...
      An interdisciplinary public service and outreach unit established in 1978, in 
      the College of Business Administration, that has a strategic alliance across
      campus that includes College of Public & Urban Affairs and the International
      Program for Nonprofit Leadership. The CED is a partnership between the 
      State, UNO and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

CED Services are targeted to...
      * Community and Business Organizations
      * State, Local & Regional Government Agencies
      * Nonprofit Organizations
      * Where focus is Community Economic Development

CED Services are designed to...
      Help local communities build capacity, become more competitive, realize 
      greater returns on public, private and nonprofit sector initiated economic
      development initiatives

CED Partners with Public, Private & Nonprofit Sectors to...
      * Encourage & nurture entrepreneurship
      * Promote business creation, attraction, expansion & retention
      * Attract new capital investment
      * Improve investment in human capital
      * Develop indigenous leadership